IN the early months of 2009, staunch Nenagh Golf Club members, Paddy Heffernan and Seamus Hogan, began to plan an assault on the Bulmers All-Ireland Bruen Shield.

ONCE again, the Pierce Purcell Shield produced high drama and great excitement before Letterkenny were crowned champions after beating Corrstown in a veritable thriller.

THE Independent Police Complaints Commission launched an investigation yesterday after a police officer used what he himself called “brute force” in arresting a young black mother-of-one.